Gun buyback program touted as success

COURT HOUSE, N.J. -- Police report 162 guns, including two sawed-off shotguns and a Chinese-made assault rifle, being bought by a recent "gun buyback" campaign in which citizens return guns to law enforcement in exchange for cash, according to the Cape May County Herald.

The program, which was a combined effort of County Prosecutor Robert Taylor, Lower Township Police Chief William Donahue, Wildwood Police Chief Steven Long, Middle Township Police Chief Joseph Evangelista and New Jersey State Police Woodbine Station Commander Robert Watkins, pays for the guns with cash confiscated from drug dealers.